Michaela Schwentner

*1978, Linz, Austria, lives and works in Vienna Residency period: April until June 2016 Artist

My most recent artistic practice consists of reenactments, performative interventions in public space and performances and tableaux vivants for film and stage settings. In my works I examine and usecinematic and theatrical elements. The act of staging — be it a video piece, a performance or an action or intervention in public space — for me is a kind of new terrain which I explore intensely with an essayist approach, mostly combined or put together in the context of moving images.

I reflect philosophic phenomena in society and transform them into new pieces with high poetic potential. I extract the reflections from their original context and turn them into staged or restaged pieces — images, ideas, and phrases are performed as if they were figures.